Friday, 4 November 2011

I am an avid listener to audio books and radio comedy series, mainly listening during tedious journeys and also to relax in the evening. The main problem that I have encountered is finding out about radio series that tickle my particular funny bone. So here is a list of my favourites, I hope you find something new for your amusement (although some are hard to get hold of), in no particular order....

Comedy - That you might not already know

Elephants to catch Eels

Historical (1790) comedy series set in a fictitious Cornish village

2 Series - Available from AudioGo

Canadia2056

Sci-fi comedy series set aboard the Canadia, the only Canadian vessel in the US space fleet.

2 Series - gets very strange in the second series (my opinion)

Deep Trouble

BBC Radio comedy set on HMS Goliath in 2012, follows the carry-ons of the crew of the submarine

1 series - Available on iTunes

Double Science

Radio 4/7 comedy about 2 science teachers and their beer/teaching antics

2 series - Available on iTunes

Old Harry's Game

Andy Hamilton plays the devil in this 7 series BBC comedy epic. This was my first choice for a long time.

7 Series + specials - All on CD and iTunes

Hut 33

BBC Radio 4 comedy following the antics of the code breakers in Hut 33 Bletchley Park in 1941

3series in total with series 2 available on iTunes, series 1 and 3 are slightly harder to acquire ;)

Hordes of the Things

Parody of Lord of the Rings

1 Series - Available on CD

Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off

Follows the adventures of upper-class twit Giles

6 Series + specials - Available on CD and iTunes

The Museum of Everything

Comedy sketch series set in the infamous "Museum of Everything"

3 Series

Nebulous

Post apocalyptic science fiction comedy series

3 Series

Revolting People

Comedy set in the American Revolutionary War

4 Series

The Scarifyers

Set of "audio adventures", each episode is a self contained story

6 Series

Space Hacks

Comedy featuring 2 lazy space reporters and their search for a story

2 Series

The Spaceship

Science fiction comedy set aboard the "Really Invincible III"

2 Series

Think the Unthinkable

Comedy following a team of management consultants

4 Series

Undone

Very surreal comedy sci-fi series about parallel worlds

3 Series

Elvenquest

Another parody of Lord of the Rings

3 series

Ectoplasm

Follows the adventures of Lord Zimbabwe

1 Series

Civilisation

Chris Addison comedy lecture looks at the creation of civilisations

1 Series

The Ape that got Lucky

Chris Addison comedy lecture looks at evolution

1 Series

The Castle

Comedy set in the Middle-ages

3 Series

Stories - That you might nor already know

Journey into Space - 3 original series - Classic radio science fiction by Charles Chilton from 1953

Operation Luna

The Red Planet

World in Peril

Journey into Space - The two later stories are new additions to the collection (2008-2009)

The Return from Mars

Frozen in Time

The Host

The Dark Island

Six part cold war story set in the Outer Hebrides

Earth Search - James Follett 10 science fiction series about the starship challenger and its search for an "Earth-like" planet to settle on